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Location Unknown
Pirate Ship, The Plunderer
Missile Batteries
Shepard could be a good sport and meet the pirates head on, killing them all in the mess hall.
But they were pirates so he wasn't going to.
That's why he was near the torpedo batteries with a load carrier hoverboard.
Let's see if they like his gift.
—
Mess Hall
The pirates were waiting for the human to come through, and they all raised their guns when the door finally opened.
Instead of the human, however, it was a hoverboard carrying a disruptor torpedo.
"DON'T SHOOT!" shouted the Batarian commander but it was too late as Shepard fired the anti-ship weapon.
Disruptor torpedoes worked by going through the shields and creating random and unstable mass effect fields to rip the hull of the ship apart.
When the torpedo hit the wall and triggered its warhead to create the mass effect fields, it pulled everything within the mess hall towards itself and shook the ship.
Shepard opened the door, only to see something straight out of a schizophrenic's idea of art.
A massive, compacted ball, made from the chairs, tables, some hull plates and the pirates inside the room, leaking bloods with different colours. Some of the crushed bodies were still visible on the surface.
The N7 just moved towards the bridge.
—
The Plunderer
Bridge
Elanos Haliat, the Turian pirate lord responsible for orchestrating the Skyllian Blitz was watching the cameras with his mandibles parted and jaw down, a sign of shock of a Turian.
He had seen many crazy things in the Terminus Systems, experiments gone wrong, deranged warlords and slavers torturing their property for fun and many other things.
This was the first time, however, seeing someone take and launch a disruptor torpedo inside a ship. Even the Krogan, for all their fatalistic views on life, wouldn't do something so insane.
"Hey idiots. Everyone else on the ship is dead, so either surrender, or get ready to suck vacuum" a voice came from outside the bridge door.
The pirates tensed up, they had already blocked the door but that didn't seem to work on the human.
"Boss, maybe we should surrender" said the Turian at the helm, earning the back of Elanos' claw.
"No one is surrendering! I'll kill anyone who wants to myself!" Elanos slammed his claw on the arms of his chair and pulled out his pistol.
Rest of the crew was already angry at the failure of the operation, and now they had a crazy human who somehow managed to kill hundreds of soldiers on the ship.
Someone jumped on Elanos from the back, taking him to the ground and wrestling for the gun and the rest of the crew sprung to action, quickly subduing their former boss.
"Last chance, I am not going to warn you bastards again"
"W-wait, we are opening the door!" The helmsman shouted, running to unlock the door. Overriding the security, he opened the door, coming face to face with a rocket launcher.
He immediately raised his hands with squawk.
"Turn back, get on your knees, hands behind your head" Shepard ordered, surveying the bridge.
Besides the ones holding down the brains behind this operation, they all raised their hands, claws and whatever's in surrender.
"Rest of you bastards too" Shepard said, pointing at them with his rocket launcher.
As they complied, he had Tolak bring out the electro-shock collars to control the pirates while he turned this ship around.
One of the Batarians bristled at this, refusing to be collared like a slave.
He was covering the wall now.
"Alright, this is how it is going to work, we are going to stop this ship, cripple any other ship that may have managed to escape and then go back to Alliance space. Anyone tries anything you are going to learn just how bad an electric shock could be for you" Shepard explained his plan, waving his omni-tool to punctuate his point.
"You think this is the end, human?! Neither the Batarian Hegemony or the Terminus Systems will ever stop hunting your kind!" Elanos spat out, furious at both failing to raid Elysium and suffering this kind of humiliation.
"Are you admitting that the Batarian Hegemony backed you for this operation?" Shepard asked, while they had captured pirates in the past, none had ever admitted or had any tangible proof of the Hegemony's backing, even though it was an open secret.
"Where do you think I got the cruiser?! You will never have peace while the Hegemony and the Terminus exist!" Elanos threatened Shepard the only way he could.
The literal best soldier the Alliance had narrowed his inside his helmet.
"You know what, new plan. When are we stopping to hit the relay?" He asked the collared helmsman, who gulped at receiving attention from Shepard.
"Less than an hour" he said, checking the controls.
"Wonderfull. First we are going to cripple those other ships as I already explained and then we are heading to Khar'shan" Shepard sat on the former captain's chair.
If the Batarians weren't going to let humanity live in peace, then they had to go.
"Khar'shan?" asked the helmsman, stopping mid way while checking the systems.
"Yes, got a problem with that?" Shepard pointed his rocket launcher at the Turian.
"N-no!" the Turian gripped his chair's armrests, trying to bury himself into the chair in fear.
"Good. From now on, you will do as I say, without any buts, ors and questions. If you don't, I am going to fry you with those collars, understand?" Shepard once more waved his omni-tool to make his point.
They answered with murmurs of "Yes" and "Understoods"
—
Kite's Nest wasn't that far away from the Petra Nebula, relatively speaking of course, as the ship only had to take the Mass Relay to the Exodus Cluster, gun for the Mass Relay there with FTL and head to Kite's Nest.
The remaining barebones crew of the ship worked round the clock to make sure they would get there, not wanting to go out like their brave Batarian compatriots.
The problem was how to get through the Batarian Defences.
Say what you will about those bastards, but they knew how to keep their space secure and under control.
But that didn't mean getting to Khar'shan was impossible. You see, Batarians had unofficial bounties on any human of higher standing, such as governors, captains, admirals, businesspeople, the rich and the famous or their families.
This was both a way to humiliate the humans and demand outrageous ransoms or concessions from the Alliance. It didn't do much of course, as the only humans who were out colonizing the Attican Traverse were people who wanted nothing to do with the Alliance or those who wanted a fresh start.
The people they paid bounties for naturally did not visit those systems, preferring the comfort and security of the inner Alliance space.
Which is why Shepard was busy doctoring footage to fool the Batarians.
He was going to use Haliat to claim they lucked out and captured the daughter of the President of the Alliance, who was visiting the colony as a sign of goodwill.
Now, Batarians, for all their corruption and arrogance, would definitely want to check if this was true, which is why Shepard was creating a fake footage of the woman crying in the cells.
He had met her once when the President was giving him a medal after the whole debacle in Akuze, and she had taken some photos for publicity.
"Spirits take you human, I will not help you" Elanos had spent the entire journey on the cells but still didn't seem interested in giving up.
Shepard held the pirate bastard by the throat and slammed him to the wall, taking his pistol and putting the barrel right above his groin.
"Listen well asshole, if you don't do as I say, you are going to have to sit while taking a leak for the rest of your life in prison" Shepard warned, his voice low and dangerous and lowered the pistol and fired a single round to show how serious he was.
Elanos jumped at the sudden move, feeling the supersonic grain go awfully close to his organs.
He gulped, realizing the human was serious.
—
Kite's Nest
Harsa System
Mass Relay
"You are certain it is her?" Asked Admiral Morlak of the Homeworld Defence Forces, examining the footage, not even bothering to check if it was real. After all the VI's matched the image with what they had from the extranet and why would a pirate lie about something like this, when the truth would come out very quickly?
"Yes Admiral, it is her. She kept begging to let her call her father, saying they would give me whatever I wanted" Elanos said, leaning back on his chair. Shepard had taken his collar off, though he had a bomb strapped to the chair to ensure his compliance.
"Good, we will send a shuttle to pick her up" Morlak grinned in the nasty way the Batarians did.
Finally, they had their breakthrough.
"I don't think so Admiral, either I will give her to the Prime Administrator myself or I'll take my chances with the Alliance" Elanos refused the Admiral's offer, knowing the man would never mention his name to the Administrator.
"You think you have a choice, pirate? You will hand her over to me or you will not make it out of here alive" Morlak warned.
Presenting the human leader's daughter to the Prime Administrator would go a long way to ensure his promotion to a more glorious position.
"You try anything and we will shoot her, then you can explain to the Prime Administrator why he lost this one of a kind opportunity" Elanos crossed his arms in defiance. While dealing with the Batarians, confidence and having the upper hand were key factors.
Morlak wanted to say something but stopped and turned right, talking to someone else.
He growled, turning to face Elanos "Very well, you may approach Khar'shan but be warned if you try anything you will pay for it"
The communication was cut off and the ships surrounding the Mass Relay moved away from the Plunderer's path, which was the exact thing Shepard wanted.
The ship moved slowly while he made the necessary calculations for an FTL jump.
To stop them from being used as weapons of mass destruction, FTL systems of every ship in existence had a lot of security protocols.
They couldn't go to FTL in the atmosphere, or within the gravitational pull of a stellar object, nor could they go to FTL if there was something with big enough mass on their part, such as a planet.
Which is why he had taken the security protocols down.
Now, he may not like them due to how their species saw themselves as superior to everyone else, but that didn't mean he was going to launch the ship at their homeworld at FTL speeds.
But he was going to ram the ship at the Palace of Krudanz after appearing right behind the Defensive Network and the Fleet protecting the planet.
"You guys want to live? Get to the escape pods" Shepard deactivated the collars and the bomb, letting the pirates go.
They didn't even miss a beat before rushing out of the door, running for their lives.
Shepard turned back to the controls and engaged the mass effect core, strapping himself to the chair because this was going to be a bumpy ride.
The ship lurched forward, and within minutes appeared right behind the defensive curtain around Khar'shan, the ship shuddering with stress as the gravity of the planet began to pull the ship down.
The Batarians couldn't afford to shoot him now, as missing would mean they would hit their homeplanet and it would take time for the ground defenses to come online.
Shepard took the helm, directing the ship right at the massive palace at full speed before he locked the controls and ran to the hangar.
Maybe he should have mentioned that there were no more escape pods to the pirates?